Programme devised and introduced by Dom Anselm Hughes , O.s.B.
The Bodley Singers and instrumental ensemble
Conducted by Bernard Rose
Carnival Song: Orientis partibus (The
Song of the Ass) (c. 1223)
Free Organum: Catholicorum concio
(twelfth century)
Dance tunes from a St. Andrews manuscript (c. 1250)
Carol for three voices: Verbum patris humanatur (thirteenth century)
Middle English Song; Fowles in the Frith (c. 1270)
Descant from Worcester: Beata viscera (c. 1280)
Early fourteenth - century motets:
Super te, Jerusalem (four-part); Triumphat hodie (three-part with Hocket); Rondel for three baritones, Fulget caelestis curia
Christmas Sequence: Glad and Blithe
(c. 1425)
Song for alto voice and gamba: I rede that thou be jolly and glad (c. 1425)
Regali Magnificat , for five voices, by Robert Fayrfax (c. 1500)